Re: Superflous Emacs backup files

2001-08-25 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 25 2001, Martin Schulze wrote: > I noticed that GNU Emacs seems to create tons of files like > .saves-16657-finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE~ in $HOME which don't get > removed. What's the way to prevent this? In my experience, I have seen those files appear only when I close em

Re: Superflous Emacs backup files

2001-08-25 Thread Alan Shutko
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I noticed that GNU Emacs seems to create tons of files like > .saves-16657-finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE~ in $HOME which don't > get removed. What's the way to prevent this? Those are session recovery files, so if your emacs crashes, you can do a M-x re

Superflous Emacs backup files

2001-08-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I noticed that GNU Emacs seems to create tons of files like .saves-16657-finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE~ in $HOME which don't get removed. What's the way to prevent this? Regards, Joey -- We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- Linus Torvalds Pl